Using video to attract new Wikipedia editors

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How can we recruit more people to make Wikipedia a richer, deeper educational resource? First, by simplifying editing. But we also need to make our readers more aware that their help is welcome, and to facilitate their first steps in improving or creating an article. So, we are funding the development of an information resource program, such as brochures and videos, that help people join us, some of which are targeted at specific audiences like teachers and students.

Our partners are 27 organizations - regional branches of Wikimedia and everyone who wants to help. Here are two recent examples.
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Wikimedia Italia financed the production of a 7-minute introductory video, “La Wikiguida di Wikipedia”. You can watch it on YouTube (with subtitles) below or view or download video in Ogg Theora format . Linked to it on every page of the Italian Wikipedia. The video was produced by Christian Biasco and this year it is planned to produce another video.



If you do not speak Italian, you may be interested in a great introduction to creating a Wikipedia article from Howcast , inserted below:

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www.howcast.com/videos/317519-How-To-Create-a-Wikipedia-Article

Produced under the guidance of Lennart Guldbrandsson, a volunteer from Swedish Wikipedia, this is a fun and comprehensive introduction, and it uses a powerful “how-to player” to guide viewers by instructions. Howcast San Francisco, by the way, now occupies an office previously used by the Wikimedia Foundation, so perhaps they were inspired by a forgotten wiki property.

Wikimedia Foundation did not plan or order these videos, but we are very happy and grateful that they were made - we believe that video resource instructions will be valuable as we increase our efforts to recruit new editors. Many thanks to Wikimedia Italy and Howcast for a good example. Going forward, we are looking for opportunities to assist and encourage our offices and individual volunteers to create these types of information resources.

Eric Moeller,
deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation


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By the way, there is another video - How to edit a Wikipedia article (also in English, but almost everything is clear).

You can also watch a video on Wikimedia Commons (I especially recommend this ) and the links from this page .

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